The 1980s: De-Industrialization and Change in White Working Class Male and Female Youth Cultural Forms.

Weis, Lois

Metropolitan Education, n5 p82-117 Fall 1987

Interviews revealed the following attitudes of working class high school students: (1) boys resent institutional authority, view school in utilitarian terms, affirm patriarchy, and evidence racism; (2) girls emphasize the centrality of the private and marginalize the public, a wage labor identity, and independence, and downplay a home-family identity. (BJV)